This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or use lifeugly.com.
Who we are
This website is run by a digital marketer passionate about writing and public speaking. We aim to empower individuals to overcome their fear of public speaking and find their voice. This blog shares personal experiences and provides resources to help anyone speak confidently.
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.
Information We Collect
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to improve our services to you.
Personal Information:
We may collect certain personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) from you, such as your name and email address, when you contact us through a form on the Site.
Non-Personal Information:
We also collect non-personally identifiable information (“Non-Personal Information”) whenever you interact with our Site. This Non-Personal Information may include your browser type, operating system, IP address, referring website, pages you visit, and the time spent on those pages.
Cookies:
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies used are beacons, scripts, and tags to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
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.
Use of Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including:
- To provide and maintain the Site
- To improve and personalize the Site
- To understand how visitors use the Site
- To develop new features
- To comply with any legal obligations
AdSense and Third-Party Vendors
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our Site. These third-party advertisers may set and access cookies on your computer or other device and may also collect Non-Personal Information about your activities online.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. You can opt out of the use of cookies by Google for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings Page: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/blocked-cookies.html
We may also share Non-Personal Information with other third-party vendors to help us understand how the Site is used and to improve our services.
Your Choices
You can choose not to provide certain Personal Information, but then you may not be able to use certain features of the Site.
Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the information you provide to us from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet transmission or electronic storage method is 100% secure.
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 do 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.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: contact@lifeugly.com
- By visiting this page on our website: https://lifeugly.com/contact/