Introduction
WomensProspects.com (“we”) promise to respect any personal information you share with us and to keep it safe. We aim to be clear when we collect your information and not do anything you without your knowledge or consent.
Developing a better understanding of our online audience through their personal information allows us to make better decisions and create better content more effectively. We have developed this Privacy Policy to make it understandable to our audience.
We operate an ‘opt-in only’ communications policy. This means that we will only send marketing communications to those people who have explicitly stated that they are happy for us to do so and only via e-mail.
E-mails we send may include promotional information about products we are affiliated with.
We do not ever produce nor send any printed material, letters, leaflets or fliers and we never distribute hard copies of information through the mail. Nor do we ever collect telephone numbers of our readers. We never contact anyone by phone.
When we collect it as you use our Website
In common with most websites, WomensProspects.com website uses “cookies” to help us make our website – and the way you use it – better. Cookies mean that a website will remember you. They are small text files that sites transfer to your computer (or phone or tablet). They make interacting with a website faster and easier – for example by automatically filling your name and address in text fields. There are more details in our Cookie Policy below.
In addition, the type of device you are using to access our website or apps and the settings on that device may provide us with information about your device, including what type of device it is, what operating system you are using, what your device settings are, or why a crash has happened. Your device manufacturer or operating system provider will have more details about what information your device makes available to us.
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.
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
If you contact us via one of the contact forms on this website, any information submitted will be stored, also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous browsing data about readers of this site. This data is collected using cookies (see below). Google Analytics collects information such as how you found this website, which pages you visited and how long you spent on each page. We cannot identify personal information from this data.
What personal information we collect and how we use it
The type and quantity of information we collect and how we use it depends on why you are providing it.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information 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, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Direct Marketing
With your consent, we will send you relevant direct marketing via e-mail. You will see opportunities to subscribe to our mailing list on this website, this is completely optional and you are free to unsubscribe at any time.
We will not sell or share personal information with third parties for the purposes of marketing. But, if we run an event we may enlist the services of a third-party organisation and we will ask for your consent before sharing your details. The third-party would be bound by a confidentiality agreement with us, which would prevent them from using this information for any other purpose.
How we keep your information safe and who has access to it
We will ensure that there are appropriate technical controls in place to protect your personal details. For example, our online forms are always encrypted and our website is protected and routinely monitored.
We will undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by website administrators.
We will only ever share your information in other circumstances if we have your explicit consent.
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 (if any), 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.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work better, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. A cookie often contains a unique number, which can be used to recognise your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website that it visited previously.
We use cookies to enhance the experience of visitors to our website, to deliver advertising, to track affiliate links and to better understand how our website is used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
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.
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.
Your rights
Our cookies do not store financial information or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). You have the right to choose whether to accept these cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether.
For a full explanation of what cookies are and information on how to block them using the settings on your Internet browser, click here to be directed to the WikiHow instructions on disabling cookies.
We have classified our cookies into two broad types – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:
First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site.
Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer when it visits other websites. Third party cookies are used for a variety of reasons, most commonly used for website analytics or advertising purposes. More details are provided in the third-party cookie section (below).
In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached.
If you go on to a page on our website that contains embedded content, for example, YouTube or Twitter, you may be sent cookies from these websites.
We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
