Who we are
www.dearmark23.com is a personal blog written and edited by me, Andrea. With questions regarding this blog, please send me a message through the CONTACT US form.
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
dearmark23.com accepts forms of cash advertisement, sponsorship, paid insertion, and other forms of compensation.
dearmark23.com abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of identity, relationships, opinions and content. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts displayed on this blog. The content or post will clearly be identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of dearmark23.com is not paid to provide opinion on: products, services, websites, etc. The views and opinions expressed on dearmark23.com are purely those of the blog owner. We will only endorse products or services that we believe are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
dearmark23.com does not contain any content that might present a conflict of interest.
Privacy Policy
The privacy of visitors to dearmark23.com is important to us.
At dearmark23.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit dearmark23.com and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
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.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as: AOL, Centrylink or Viasat), the browser you used to visit our site (such as: Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies
dearmark23.com uses third party advertisements to support our website. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (for example, showing California real estate ads to someone in California) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
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
Blog posts on dearmark23.com may include embedded content (for example: videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave 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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 subscribe to dearmark23.com, we 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 this 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.