Privacy Policy
Your data and privacy are important to us and treated with the utmost care and respect. We don’t collect data that is not absolutely necessary for ongoing operations.
Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle data.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, to comply with the most recent legal requirements and regulations.
Please contact us any time at viktoria@thelifestyle-files.com if you have any questions regarding our data collection and privacy policies.
What information do we collect from the people that visit our blog?
Like most websites, The Lifestyle Files collects personal data 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. We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Our purpose in collecting your personal data is to better understand how our visitors use our website.
If you subscribe to The Lifestyle Files newsletter, we collect your name and email address. This data is stored on the MailChimp servers in the USA. MailChimp, as our newsletter sending service provider, uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of my newsletters or sending us an email at viktoria@thelifestyle-files.com
We will never rent or sell your above personal data to anyone and we handle it according to the relevant laws and regulations.
Various data, like IP address and usage data may be collected through third parties (e.g. Google Analytics, Disqus, social media widgets etc.). Please consult their respective privacy policies to get information on how they handle your data.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you automatically when you visit our site or make an action, like pin an image, recommend a post on Facebook, or comment using your Disqus profile. We collect your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter.
How do we use your information?
We only use your personal data when and how it is legally permitted and is necessary for ongoing operations of The Lifestyle Files.
We use your name and email address to send you our newsletter.
We use the information to collect and analyze data regarding the visitors (e.g. location, language) and their behavior on the Lifestyle Files (e.g. pages accessed, sessions, acquisition etc.).
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information, like usage data and behavior.
They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide service information to the owners of the site. Please note that cookies are not spyware or viruses and they can’t read information from your computer.
What kind of cookies do we use?
We use session cookies, persistent cookies, and third party cookies on The Lifestyle Files in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Session cookies are temporary files, which will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies are used to recognize you when you visit the site or track your preferences and behaviors. They will remain on your computer until you manually delete them (by clearing browsing data, history, cookies, and site data) or until they reach a specified expiry data (for example, in case of affiliate links tracking cookies typically expire after 24 hours or 90 days). Tracking cookies used in affiliate links are persistent cookies.
Third party cookies are created by trusted third-party services and websites other than The Lifestyle Files to collect and track various data. For example, the Google Analytics cookies placed on this website are third party cookies, which measure how many website visitors we receive and how they use the site.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings (look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies).
If you turn cookies off, it won’t affect the user experience.
Sharing your data
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal data unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, sending our newsletter, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information strictly confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect others’ or our rights, property or safety. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. Similarly, we often may post links to other websites of interest. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies that we do not have any control over. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites, so please consult their respective privacy policy and data collection practices when you visit their site. We seek to protect the integrity of our site, so we welcome any feedback about these sites.
How long we retain your data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as it’s necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Contacting us and gaining access to your personal data
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you’d like to know more about our data collection practices, or you’d like to get access to or erase the personal data we collected about you, please contact us through email:
viktoria@thelifestyle-files.com
Last updated: March 22, 2019
