The following information is to help you understand how we collect, use, disseminate and safeguard the data you provide while accessing and using this website.

Who we are:

Our website address is: https://lisassimplelife.com.

My email address is: LisaD@lisassimplelife.com

Personal Information:

You may provide certain personal information, such as your first and last name and email address. If you make any purchases from this website, your mailing address, phone number and country of origin may also be collected.

Whenever you visit a page, our servers automatically record certain information about your web browser. This may include information such as your IP address, browser type and language, pages viewed, the date and time. This data is used for ensuring the stability of our provided services and is deleted automatically after seven days.

We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We do not sell or otherwise provide personal information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services. We will retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud and/or respond to a government request. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement or other issues of public importance.

Cookies:

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies are used on this website to store visitor preferences and other technical information required for the functionality of the website. No personal information is stored in these cookies and they will remain in effect for one year. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Google Analytics:

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reprts on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your  browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Newsletter:

When you sign up for our newsletters, we may ask you to provide your name, email address and/or demographic information. We use this information to provide relevant information and offers which you may subscribe to. We use demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry reporting purposes.

We use a third-party provider to deliver email messages. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter and website. You can opt out of our email messages at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions located near the bottom of each email message. If you have received an email in error or would like to submit a complaint regarding an email message you received, please contact me at LisaD@lisassimplelife.com.

Comments:

When visitors leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automatic.com/privacy/.  After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Contact forms:

We have features where users can submit information to us (such as comments/feedback forms and subscriber forms. Letters to the editor and similar submissions may be made public. Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. We may retain emails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes and to help us to serve customers better.

Embedded content from other websites:

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

I am not responsible for the behavior or content of other websites you may be directed to.

Where we send your data:

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do not share or sell your personal information.

What rights you have over your data:

If you have left comments on this site, 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.

We take reasonable steps to accurately record the personal information that you provide to us and any subsequent updates. You are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold. To do this, please contact me at LisaD@lisassimplelife.com.

As of May 25, 2018, this website will be subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will safeguard the security of users in the European Economic Area. As part of our commitment to providing you the best possible service, we have updated our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use this website after May 25, this Privacy Policy will apply to your use of our services.

Thank you for visiting our website!

Regards,

Lisa Drude