Privacy Policy

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Last update: February 13th, 2023

Welcome to this blog’s Privacy Policy!

You are currently visiting www.greenwithless.com. Please know that I value your privacy a lot, so I created this page to clarify how my visitors’ data is used on this blog.

Visitors’ information is collected to assure continuous improvement of this blog’s usability. By browsing on this blog, you acknowledge and agree that your personal data will be collected in compliance with this policy.

Collection of personal data

Personal and usage data

While browsing on greenwithless.com, you may be asked for certain personal information, so that I can identify you or contact you.

On this blog, I automatically collect your usage data (when you visited this blog, which pages you clicked on, how long on stayed on each of them, which browser type and version you had, the type of device you had, your IP address as well as other information).

I collect your data to make sure that this blog can work properly, to learn more about visitors’ behavior, and to give them access to certain functionalities. I also need certain information to be able to contact you by email if needed or to send you my newsletter (if you are subscribed to it). If you send me a message through any contact form, I also may collect your data.

Comments

If you write a comment somewhere on this blog, I will collect your IP address, the information you provided in the comments form, as well as your browser user agent string.

I may provide the Gravatar service with an anonymized string (created from your email address) to check whether you are making use of it. You can access the Gravatar service’s privacy policy if you click on the following link: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Once your comment is approved, your picture (if you submitted any) will be displayed next to your comment and visible to the other visitors of greenwithless.com.

Pictures

As users of this blog can download the location data from any picture displayed on greenwithless.com, make sure that you don’t upload pictures with embedded location data.

Contact forms

If you submit a comment on greenwithless.com, I collect and keep your email thanks to the service called Contact Form 7. Please read their privacy policy on this page. If you want your information to be removed from their service, feel free to send them a message here.

Email newsletter

If you subscribe to my newsletter, you agree to receive emails from Green With Less. If you want to unsubscribe, click on “unsubscribe” in the footer of my emails. I use Auto Mailer by Grow by Mediavine to send my newsletter.

Cookies (for additional details, read our Cookie Policy)

On greenwithless.com, I use tracking technologies such as cookies to monitor my visitors’ activity and to store data like their preferences, behavioral information, and which pages are visited. Cookies use visitors’ data to display personalized content to them.

If you wish to revoke cookies on greenwithless.com, feel free to do so by clicking on the button below. The same button is available to you on our Cookie Policy page.

Reject

Embedded content from other websites

Articles that you may read on this blog might include embedded content (like pictures…) from other websites. This embedded content behaves as if you have visited the other website. It means that these websites can also use cookies, collect information about you, and track how you interact with their embedded content.

Analytics

On greenwithless.com, I use Google Analytics to collect and store data about this blog’s visitors, like the device they use, the pages they visit, when they see a given page… This information is anonymized and transferred to Google Analytics. Click here to check how Google Analytics use your data.

Google Analytics tracks visitors’ behavior mainly thanks to first-party cookies. You have the right to disable or delete these cookies. If you wish to disable measurement by Google Analytics, you may want to install their optional browser add-on. Google Analytics also collects visitors’ IP addresses to give me information about where my readers come from.

Advertisement

Ads are displayed on this blog by our partners Google Adsense and Mediavine.

Google Adsense and Mediavine may use cookies, web beacons or JavaScripts, and have access to your IP address. These tracking technologies help us monitor how advertising campaigns are performing, and are useful to personalize the ad content to viewers according to their preferences (and previous websites that they’ve visited).

As this blog’s owner, I do not control or have access to cookies used by Mediavine and Google Adsense. Green With Less’ privacy policy doesn’t apply to third-party ad networks, so please read Mediavine’s Privacy Policy as well as Google Adsense’s one.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Who has access to your data

I may need to share your data:

• With service providers who help me with business operations, to monitor the use of greenwithless.com, to contact you… These can include, among others, data analysis, hosting, marketing, spam detection services, maintenance, email delivery services…
• With other readers of this blog. If you interact with other visitors or share personal information on this blog, every visitor will be able to see what you shared and it might be publicly distributed outside of this blog.
• With someone that you explicitly agreed to have your information transferred to.
• With third parties if I find it necessary or appropriate, always in compliance with applicable laws

Please know that your personal information by never be sold, rented or leased to a third party after you visited this blog. .

How long is your data retained

I will keep and use your personal information for the period necessary to comply with my legal obligations, to make sure that my legal agreements and policies are respected, and to resolve possible disputes.

As for usage data, I collect it for internal analysis purposes, and generally keep it for shorter periods, unless I am legally compelled to keep it for longer, or if I need it to improve this blog’s functionality and security.

All the comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. Google Analytics keeps visitors’ personal information for 50 months. Data you enter in contact forms is saved indefinitely as Contact Form 7 (the service used to display contact forms) may need it for future reference. To have your information removed from their database, please contact them here.

The rights you have over your data

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), every visitor has the right to access their personal data, to request rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete information, and to ask for the erasure of their personal data under certain conditions (this doesn’t include the data we have to retain for legal, security or administrative purposes).

Under certain conditions, every user of this blog is also entitled to restrict or object to the processing of their personal data, and has the right to request the transfer of their data to themselves or another organization.

If you want to make a request, please use the contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy. I will have one month to get back to you.

Where your data is sent

Your information is processed on my computer, as I am this blog’s administrator, and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that your data may be retained on computers outside your country (where the data protection laws can be different from those in your country). If you visit this blog and you accept this Privacy Policy, you agree to that said transfer.

As mentioned above on this page, third parties might have access to your personal information. I assure you that I take all necessary steps to make sure that your information is safe, in compliance with this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of your data

If this blog is ever sold, your data might be transferred to the new owner of this website. I will make sure to publicly disclose if any data is transferred and if the Privacy Policy of this website shall change.

Under certain circumstances, I might also be compelled to disclose your information if the law or any public authority requires me to do so. I might need to do so to comply with the law, to protect myself against any legal liability, to prevent or investigate any wrongdoing regarding this blog. It may also be the case if I need to protect the property or rights I have on this blog, and to protect the safety of my readers or other people.

Additional information

Visitors under 13 years old

Greenwithless.com is not directed to children under 13 years old, and I don’t knowingly collect data from them. If I ever find that I’ve collected data from a child under 13, I will make sure to remove it as soon as possible. If you think that your child visited this blog without your consent, please contact me by email at eva[at]greenwithless[dot]com. By being on this blog, you are representing that you are above 13 years old.

California privacy rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law) and if you are a California resident with an established business relationship with me, you have the right to ask for information once a year about how I share your data with third parties. You can contact me using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

In addition to that, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 entitles California residents under 18 years old to request removal of any information or content they have publicly shared on a website. If you’re a California resident under 18, you can contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy to request the removal of your content or information.

Please know that your request doesn’t guarantee complete erasure of your data that is posted online and that the law may not allow it in certain cases.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

As Green With Less administrator, I may change this Privacy Policy at any time, and each modification is effective immediately.

Online Privacy Policy only

This Privacy Policy only applies to this blog, its visitors and the information that is shared and/or collected here. It doesn’t apply to any information collected offline or on other websites.

Consent to this Privacy Policy

By visiting this blog, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with this policy, please leave greenwithless.com.

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