Disclaimer, Disclosure, and Privacy

DISCLAIMER

YOUR PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. 

WHO WE ARE:

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by
me (Marta). Our website address is: https://www.mackinawroad.com. For questions about this blog, please contact me at marta@mackinawroad.com. 

Unless otherwise noted, I am the legal copyright holder of the material
and pictures posted on my blog. Bloggers are free to use my material if
it is linked to my blog and I am given credit for my pictures and ideas.

This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own.

Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a
product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider,
or party in question.

This is a hobby blog and should be read as such. I am not an expert or professional in any areas discussed. This blog is used to share experiences and should not be taken as professional advice in any way, shape, or form. 

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

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.

Contact Forms

Contact form submissions are kept for a certain period of time for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Cookies

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.

By using cookies, we are able to offer more personal relevance when you visit https://www.mackinawroad.com. These cookies remain until deleted.

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.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the collected information for running and overseeing the website, sending newsletters and emails (emails will always have a link to unsubscribe), providing technical information such as confirmation emails, security alerts, and policy updates), answering any user support issues, replying to comments/questions, following and quantifying advertising on https://www.mackinawroad.com, and protecting against illegal activity.

Third-Party Peronal Information Use/Notice Regarding Online Behavioral Advertising

We allow third party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice visit the NAI at http://www.networkadvertising.org.

We may use third-party advertising for content and advertising when you visit, which may employ the use of cookies (which was described previously). We may also occasionally engage in remarketing campaigns with third-parties (e.g, Google, Facebook, Instagram); these companies may also use cookies. As described above, this website uses affiliate marketing. If you click on a link that is an affiliate, a cookie will be placed on your browser, which will keep track of sales in order to receive possible commissions. On the website, you may opt to subscribe to our newsletter. It is possible that the newsletter may be used for advertising. All of the newsletters may contain tracking pixels. These pixels also us to see if and when our newsletter is opened by you as well as any links that you click on. This allows for adjusting the information being provided to our readers based upon interest, emails opened, etc.

Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet. For more information about how Google manages data in its ads products, please refer here.

To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, mackinawroad.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.

If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from this website. If you would like to change your preferences or read more about cookies, you can read more here.

Collection of Personal Information
When visiting https://www.mackinawroad.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to third party Websites:

This website participates in affiliate advertising programs, which means that I might make a small commission if you purchase certain items at no extra cost to you.

I have included links on this site for your use and reference. I am not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Should you purchase a product or service that was recommended by this website, it is understood that some form of compensation might be made to me. For example, if you click on an affiliate link and then make a purchase of the recommended product or service, I may receive compensation.

The website also uses Google Analytics, which tracks usage of https://www.mackinawroad.com, obtaining information such as referring websites and user clicks/actions while visiting the website. An IP address may be captured by Google Analytics but no other personal information is. Their Privacy Policy and their data protection policy are here and here.

The website also use MailChimp for email notification of when new articles are published. MailChimp may also be used for newsletters. Your name and email address is stored for purposes of delivering this information. MailChimp’s privacy policy is here.

This website also uses ASKIMET. Your information is collected by Akismet anti-spam service. This typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). The purpose is to make the Mackinaw Road site safe and to protect it from spammers.

Anonymous Data

The website may occasionally use anonymous data (i.e., data that does not solely identify you), which may be provided to other parties for advertising, marketing, or other uses. This anonymous data may include cookie information or analytics.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

You may always opt-out of email communications by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or emailing mackinawroad@gmail.com. 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 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.

Children’s Information

We are concerned with children’s privacy and do not knowingly collect information from a child under 16 years of age. Please contact us right away at mackinawroad@gmail.com if for any reason, a parent or guardian believes that we have personally identifiable information for a person under 16 years old in our data storage and we will work expeditiously to remove such information.

Sensitive Personal Information

Don’t give it to me. I don’t want it and will never ask for it. This includes, but is not limited to social security numbers and health/medical information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Thank You!