Privacy & Disclosures
Disclosure Policy
Porculine is a personal blog written and edited by me. I will never share or sell your email or other info. For any questions about this blog, please contact me at silvy[at]porculine[dot]com.
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising and affiliate link.
All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third-party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
Some of the links to these products and services are affiliate links, which means I received a small percentage commission from when a reader clicks it or makes a purchase using the link, at no cost to them. Some products or services are mentioned within the content of this blog, they may or may not be marked as an affiliate in every reference. I want to thank you for supporting this blog if you do make a purchase through my affiliate link.
From this blog, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While I strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, I 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 I have the opportunity to remove a link that may have gone ‘bad’.
Privacy Policy
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information may be collected on Porculine.com website and how it may be used. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow where
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason). We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. And we don’t store personal information on our server unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.
Website Visitor
Porculine.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes 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.
We use cookies on Porculine.com. 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.
For more general information on cookies, please read the “What Are Cookies” article on Cookie Consent website.
You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit Porculine.com. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services relevant to your interests.
Other Information Collected by Porculine.com Website
You may voluntarily submit your name or email address on this Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Porculine websites choose to interact with Porculine in ways that require me to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Porculine.com gathers depend on the nature of the interaction.
For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive Porculine updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Porculine.com collects such information only insofar as to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
Porculine.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.
Third-Party Use of Personal Data
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
Google Analytics – This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but not your name, email address, or other personal information.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.
Our Advertising Partners
Ads appearing on our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer.
This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Porculine and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
The website may contain links to third-party websites or resources for your convenience. We may serve as an affiliate for some of these third-party websites by offering or advertising their products or services on the website. Once you click on a third-party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our terms and conditions.
Note that Porculine.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
Porculine.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Porculine.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Porculine’s sole discretion. We may encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
For any questions, please send me an email at silvy[at]porculine[dot]com