At AROwnBackyard.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. We are committed to keeping any and all personal information collected on this site accurate, secure, and private. This privacy policy describes in detail the types of personal information that is collected and recorded by www.AROwnBackyard.com and our affiliates, and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy is reviewed and revised from time to time. You will want to revisit it regularly. Your use of this site, in any and all forms, constitutes an acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.AROwnBackyard.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Collection of information
It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statements of any website you choose to frequent as a means to better understand the way in which other websites garner, make use of and share information collected.
Use of Information Collected
ArOwnBackyard.com may collect and make use of personal information to assist in the opereration of our website and to ensure delivery of the services you need and request.
AROwnBackyard.com does not sell, rent or lease any of our user lists and/or names to any third parties.
AROwnBackyard.com may disclose your personal information, without prior notice to you, only if required to do so in accordance with applicable laws and/or in a good faith belief that such action is deemed necessary or is required in an effort to:
- Remain in conformace with any decrees, laws and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon AROwnBackyard.com;
- Maintain, safeguard and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of AROwnBackyard.com; and
- Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of www.AROwnBackyard.com and/or the general public.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site 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://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
www.AROwnBackyard.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
What types of cookies do we use?
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Our website saves the cookie heateorSsBrowserMsg in your browser to track which visitors have seen the popup notification and which haven’t. This cookie isn’t related to your personal data or your IP address.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Google Analytics
ArOwnBackyard uses Google Analytics to show us how many people are using our site, where they come from, and which pages are our most popular. Some of the Google Analytics Advertising Features that might be used on this site include:
- Remarketing with Google Analytics
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
- Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data for advertising purposes, including the collection of data via advertising cookies and identifiers
These features enable Google Analytics to collect data about your traffic via Google advertising cookies and identifiers. No person associated ARownBackyard.com will identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with additional information collected through any Google advertising product or feature unless we have robust notice of, and the user’s prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that identification or merger, and are using a Google Analytics feature that expressly supports such identification or merger. Click here to learn more about Personally Identifiable Information in Google’s contracts and policies. To read more on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, click here.
If you would like to access and delete your Google data, you can do that right here.
To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on here
Our Advertising Partners
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners may include:
Google AdSense
A service for including advertisements from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google AdSense uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allows the analysis of the use of the site. Google AdSense also uses “Web Beacons”(invisible images) to gather information about visitor traffic on this Website, including your IP address. This information can be recorded and collected, and transferred to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there.
Google will use his information to evaluate your use of the site in order to show and compile reports on website activity and ads for website operators and providing other services with website and internet related services. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can avoid storing cookies on your hard drive and the display of Web Beacons by choosing to accept in your browser settings, “cookies” (in MS Internet Explorer under “Tools>> Internet Options>> Privacy>> Settings”, In Firefox under Tools>> Settings>> Privacy>> Cookies). Please be aware that this action may prevent you from using all of the features of this website.
Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. These cookies help to serve advertisements for products and services that are relevant to you based on your previous searches or visits to this Website and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.AROwnBackyard.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
www.AROwnBackyard.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How can I control the cookie preferences?
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org
Social Register and Log in
If you Register or Login using one of the Social Login functions (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), we collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email. In which case, we may have to delete the user profile and you will need to Register a new user account with an email address.
How long we retain your data
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.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Caching
www.AROwnBackyard.com utilizes a service called CloudFlare that optimizes the delivery of our pages (downloads faster for you), and provides an extra layer of security to the site. Part of this service involves routing the traffic through a global network and caching some of our content. To learn more about how they collect information and what they do with it, visit their privacy policy here:
https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Third Party Privacy Policies
www.AROwnBackyard.com does contain links to affiliates and other websites. www.AROwnBackyard.com does not claim or accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices or procedures of other such websites.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.AROwnBackyard.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. www.AROwnBackyard.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.AROwnBackyard.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Business Transfer
In the event that ownership of www.AROwnBackyard.com should transfer to another owner, your information stored here may be transferred. If such a transfer were to result in a change in the way your information is used, you will be given notice of the transfer and the choices you have in regards to the information being transferred.
Unsubscribe or Opt-Out
All users and/or visitors have the option to discontinue receiving communications from us by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue use of our website or any communications, please send an email that you wish to either unsubscribe from communications, or close account, or both. If you wish to unsubscribe from any third party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe and/or opt-out.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
AROwnBackyard.com reserves the right to update and/or change the terms of our Privacy Policy at any time. If changes are made, a link to this updated policy will be placed on the homepage. We may also email all users to announce such changes and provide a link to the updated policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated January 18 , 2020.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to the terms listed in it’s Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions here, you should cease any further use of this website. Your continued use indicates that you agree and accept all terms.
Contact Us
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].
