We Respect Your Privacy!
It is Casey’s and my duty here at JournalingDiaries.com to respect your privacy. The following privacy policy, together with the terms of use posted on this website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of JournalingDiaries.com. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 21, 2021
JournalingDiaries.com (hereinafter referred to as “us”, “we”, “this blog”, “this website”, “our website”, “JournalingDiaries.com”, or “https://journalingdiaries.com”) are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through this website. This entire “privacy policy” explains what information may be collected on JournalingDiaries.com, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This privacy policy applies only to information we collect through JournalingDiaries.com and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
In addition, you can access and browse JournalingDiaries.com without disclosing any personal information. We only collect information in the form of names and email addresses when it is voluntarily provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms of use on this website.
Website Visitors
This website, like most other websites, collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally-identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our website, JournalingDiaries.com. If need be, from time to time, JournalingDiaries.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate. For instance, we may publish a report on the trends in the usage of our website.
JournalingDiaries.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog posts. We only disclose logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances as when we use and disclose personally-identifying-information. These are all described below.
Gathering of Personally-identifying Information
For those visitors wishing to interact with JournalingDiaries.com in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information, the amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask our visitors who wish to become our subscribers provide their name and email. To comment on articles and blog posts, visitors to JournalingDiaries.com also need to provide a username, their email address, as well as their own website if they have one.
Security
Your personal information and its security is very important to us, but please keep in mind that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. JournalingDiaries.com uses the latest commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee these will ensure absolute security of your personal information.
Advertisements
To provide some income to ourselves, we partner with Ezoic, which displays relevant ads to the user in various locations throughout our website. Ezoic may set “cookies” on your computer, if your browser has this option enabled. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your unique computer each time they send you an online ad to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by JournalingDiaries.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links to External Websites
JournalingDiaries.com contains links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites, products, or services.
We Also Use Google Adwords For Remarketing
JournalingDiaries.com uses what are called “remarketing” services to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our website. This means that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an ad on the Google search results page (SERPs), or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page and, if you want to, you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings, or permanently by using a browser plugin.
How We Use Certain Personally-Identifying Information
JournalingDiaries.com is OUR blog and ours only (“our” referring to Leo Cai and Casey Boily). We have no employees who have access to any personally-identifying information (potential or otherwise).
However, we grant some of our affiliated organizations access to names, usernames, and email addresses because they need to know that information in order to process it on JournalingDiaries.com’s behalf or to provide necessary services available on JournalingDiaries.com. These organizations have agreed with us not to disclose this information to others. It is possible some of these organizations’ employees or contractors are located outside of your home country. By using our website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
JournalingDiaries.com will not rent or sell personally-identifying information (potential or otherwise) to anyone. We would only disclose personally-identifying information (potential or otherwise) in response to a subpoena, court order, or other government request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of our website, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user or subscriber of JournalingDiaries.com and have supplied your email address, JournalingDiaries.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on and new with the website and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, however, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example, via support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Be assured we take all reasonably necessary measures to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of personally-identifying information (potential or otherwise).
Aggregated Statistics
JournalingDiaries.com may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we will never disclose your personally-identifying information through aggregated statistics.
Affiliate Disclosure
JournalingDiaries.com uses affiliate links to earn a commission. However, this commission does not affect the price you pay for your purchases through these affiliate links.
Cookies
In order to enhance your online experience, JournalingDiaries.com uses “cookies”, similar technologies, and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your own computer.
A cookie is a short text document that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. JournalingDiaries.com uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of JournalingDiaries.com, and their website access preferences. Our visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, along with any of its extensions. The drawback of this choice, however, is that visitors lose out on being able to use certain features which require the help of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to JournalingDiaries.com’s use of cookies.
Changes to the Above Privacy Policy
JournalingDiaries.com is relatively new, and its features and content are minimal compared to that of other more established wellness and lifestyle blogs. So, as time goes on and as we see fit, we may change our privacy policy. However, be assured that any changes will likely be minor. We encourage you, our much appreciated user, to check back regularly for updates to our privacy policy. Your continued use of this website after any updates or changes to our entire privacy policy will constitute your acceptance to this change.
We would love to have you continue using JournalingDiaries.com without fear of compromising your privacy!
Need More Clarification?
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at the following email address: us(at)journalingdiaries.com.
