Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.hellohomesteader.com. We are a social media website geared toward the homesteading community.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they share and/or collect while using Hello Homesteader. This Policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Community and Account
Community is a vital part of our website. When you register for an Account, by explicitly registering, you understand that a public online profile will be automatically created within our community hosted on Hello Homesteader and that it is inseparable. You have the right to remove your account at any given time. Removal of your account automatically removes all of the data associated with the account with the exception of (privately stored) necessary billing information related to any purchases that we are required to store by law. Contact us if you wish to have the account removed or if you have additional questions.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Hello Homesteader, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in 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.
Payment Data
We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code, billing address and shipping address.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Communicate with you, either directly to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website.
- You might be contacted via our community by other community members
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
We do not and will not provide any entities outside of Hello Homesteader with your personal information.
Log Files
Cookies
Hello Homesteader follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Like any other website, Hello Homesteader uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
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.
When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information
Your information is shared with third parties only for the purpose of the operation of the website. No information is provided for marketing purposes.
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.
How We Protect Your Data
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
hellohomesteader does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
What is our stance on third parties websites
hellohomesteader allows links to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or potential advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other websites, services, or applications. Accordingly, we do not make any guarantee regarding any such third parties, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such third-party websites, services, or applications. The inclusion of a link towards a third-party website, service, or application does not imply an endorsement by us. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this privacy notice. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services, or applications that may be linked to or from the Services. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.
Disclaimers
All the information on this website – https://hellohomesteader.com – including but not limited to Hellohomesteader Community is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. Hellohomesteader does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (Hellohomesteader), is strictly at your own risk. Hellohomesteader will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.
Hellohomesteader does not accept liability whatsoever for content created by its Users or for the activities of its Users. These cannot be attributed to Hellohomesteader, nor do they represent Hellohomesteader’s opinion.
From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’.
Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control.
Changes
Hellohomesteader may periodically update this policy. This policy is subject to change at any time, without prior notice. You are responsible for reviewing this policy on a regular basis.