Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use it. This statement applies only to this website.
What information do we collect and how do we use it?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Site: We may collect personal information about you, such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Site by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Comments: When a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
If you leave a comment on the site, you can choose to have your name, email address and website saved in a cookie. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
An anonymous string (also known as a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar Services Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
If you have left a comment on the website, you can request to receive an export of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Visitors’ comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.
Embedded content from other sites: Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way that the visitor has visited other websites.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interactions with that embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account with the site and are logged in.
Information We Collect From Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, you can link your Facebook, Instagram and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram and/or Google account to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile photo associated with that account.
Information Collected Automatically: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device you use to access the Site. For example, when you use this website, we will record your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you view and the date/time you visit this website. We may also collect information about the actions you take while using this website, such as the links you click.
Cookies and web beacons:
I do use cookies to store information such as your personal preferences when you visit my website. This may include showing you pop-ups only once when you visit, or being able to log into some of my features, such as the free print library.
I also use third party advertising on housesgear.com to support my site. When these advertisers advertise on my site, they use technologies such as cookies and web beacons, which also send information to these advertisers (such as AdThrive), including your IP address, your ISP, your visit to my site The browser used and, in some cases, whether Flash is installed. Google uses the DoubleClick cookie to enable it and its partners to serve advertisements to my users based on their visits to my site and/or other sites on the Internet. This is often used for geotargeting purposes (for example, to show New Yorkers an ad for New York real estate) or to show certain ads based on specific websites visited (for example, to show a cooking ad to people who frequent a culinary website).
The ad network that may appear on my site is AdThrive.
More information about cookies:
Cookies are small text files placed on your machine to help a website provide a better user experience.
Cookies cannot identify you personally.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences and provide anonymous tracking data to third-party applications such as Google Analytics.
Generally, cookies will make your browsing experience better.
However, you may wish to disable cookies on this and other websites.
The most effective way is to disable cookies in your browser.
I recommend consulting your browser’s “Help” section or checking out the “About Cookies” website, which provides guidance for all modern browsers.
To opt-out of the Google Analytics cookie, please visit this page on tools.google.com.
This page describes how Google uses cookie data from this site.
How your information is used
This website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – This service tracks site usage and provides information such as referring sites and user actions on the site. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but Google Analytics does not capture other personal information.
This list may be modified from time to time at the Site’s sole discretion.
Except as required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or disclose your email address or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Site to acquire all or part of our business, as may be the result of a merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
anonymous data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not personally identify you, or in combination with data from other parties. Such anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other purposes. Examples of such anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
publicly viewable information
If you comment on the Site, certain information may be publicly displayed. Your email address will never be made public. Depending on your choice, you can also add an avatar, profile description and a link to your website.
