Who we are
Modest Hostess is a lifestyle and entertaining blog website. We strive to provide interesting and helpful content. As a visitor of our website, we are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.
Questions & Contact: If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regarding to your personal information, please contact us.
Updated Policy as of January 1, 2020.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
As a visitor, you can browse our Website and are not required to provide use with any personal information as a visitor.
We collect your personal information when you register with us as a User. As a User your personal information is collected when you engage in the following conduct, including but not limited to: when you sign up and/or express an interest in obtaining information about us, our products or services, or our content; when you participate in activities on our Website (such as leaving comments, posting, pinning or otherwise sharing our media and content on third party websites, or other interactive use of the website); or otherwise contacting us.
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to use when using our website. The personal data we collect depends on your use of the website and interaction with us. The personal information we collect, generally may include the following:
- Name, email address and contact data
- Social media handles
- Business or affiliate information
Other information may be gathered at a later time, including but not limited to payment processing information. Our policies will be updated should such services be implemented. Our goal is not to share your personal sensitive payment information.
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.
Any comments left by visitors are publicly visible, and any personal information shared in a comment will become public. By leaving a comment you agree that the information, including any personal information or data, may be disclosed to the public.
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
Your personal information is collected when you use contact forms. The personal information generally includes: your name, your email address and other contact information.
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 visit our login page, 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.
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 & Automatically Collected Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser and/or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, as well as the name of any website to which you are headed when you leave our website. This information also includes but may not be limited to: the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the internet, your internet website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device and the computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.
We also use third party tracking tools to improve the performance and features of our website. These tools are designed to collect non-personal information about your use of our website. These tools are created and managed by third parties outside of our control. We are not responsible for what information is actually collected or captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that
Minors Under Thirteen
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Who we share your data with
Third-Party Websites & Services
Our website and the Content (pages, postings, pictures, etc.) include social media tools that may, among other things, allow you to manage access, post content and manage content on social network platforms (e.g. Facebook®) These tools also allow you to use our the Content to access and analyze information found on social media websites. You hereby grant us all required permissions to access such websites and provide this functionality.
Our website may contain links to websites that are controlled by third parties and access to certain third-party services (including our partners), which may include without limitation, marketing and advertising services, social bookmarking services, social network platforms, publication and delivery services, payment processing services and other payment intermediaries or websites and members of our Network. These links and services are provided to you as a convenience, and we are not affiliated with or responsible for the content, action or performance of any linked website or and third party services, and your use of such websites or services is done at your own risk. Any and all third party websites and services are independent from us and we have no control over, and assume no responsibility for any content, privacy policy, terms of use, practices or otherwise of such website or service. Those third party websites and services may have terms of use, privacy and data policies, cookies policies, or other policies that are different than ours and you should review the applicable policies before proceeding.
Other Disclosures
We may disclose your data, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Modest Hostess or any of its partners or members, to protect and defend the rights or property of Modest Hostess, and/or to act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Modest Hostess or the public.
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.
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. Notice is given that although your personal data will be erased, such actions are not retroactive and does not extend to any personal data previously held and shared prior to the date of notice.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We do not sell, rent or lease any customer lists to third parties.
From time to time, we may contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e.g., email, name, address and/or telephone number) may be transferred to the third party. We may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Modest Hostess, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
We may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Modest Hostess or any of its partners or members, to protect and defend the rights or property of Modest Hostess, and/or to act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Modest Hostess or the public.
How we protect your data
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Opt-Out & Unsubscribe
You have control over the personal information your share with us. We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. You may opt-out of receiving any or all communications by contacting us. We will make best and good faith efforts to unsubscribe you from further communications, and you understand that this will be completed in a reasonable timeframe, but may not occur immediately.
By opting-out or unsubscribing, you may no longer receive notices, including updates about our privacy information. However, we reserve the right to contact you the extent obliged for any administrative, legal or security purpose.
Reservation of Rights
Modest Hostess reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and any other policy on this Website from time to time without notification. To the extent your personal information has been collected and stored, we will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of our website, content, products and/or services available through this website after such modifications will constitute: (1) your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy and (2) agreement to abide and be bound by that Privacy Policy.
Comments: We welcome your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy Statement. If you believe that Modest Hostess has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us. It is our goal to protect our visitors’ personal information and provide clear notice.