Who we are
Our website address is: http://thebrandedpath.com
email: thebrandedpath@gmail.com
The privacy of our visitors to thebrandedpath.com is important to us.
At thebrandedpath.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 thebrandedpath.com and how we safeguard your information. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Cookies
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 log in 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 log in 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.
Third Party Cookies
We also use third party advertisements on thebrandedpath.com to support our site. 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 (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”).
The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose 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.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added. You can opt out of some third party vendor use of cookies by for personalized advertising by going to there website or by going to www.aboutads.info
Google AdSense (Advertising Service) http://google.com/adsense
Google Analytics (traffic monitoring service) https://policies.google.com/privacy
Amazon (affiliate and rewards programs): https://amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496
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.
Analytics
My hosting provider monitors traffic and also maintains logs like IP addresses for performance and security.
Thebrandedpath.com also uses Google Analytics as a traffic monitor service to give me insights into how visitors use our site. Google Analytics privacy policy here:https://policies.google.com/privacy
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. thebrandedpath.com only collects the minimum amount to reduce privacy impact. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Email thebrandpath@gmail.com to have your information deleted.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
How we use your information
To operate and maintain website, To create an account, identify you as a user of the website and customize the website for you account, To send you promotional information, like newsletters. Each email will have information to opt out of future ones. To respond to your comments. To provide you with user support. To send administrative communications: technical notices, administrative emails, confirmation emails, policies, and security alerts. To track and measure advertising on thebrandedpath.com. To protect, investigate and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
Information on Children
Thebrandedpath.com is not intend for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on thebrandedpath.com . Thebrandedpath.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that thebrandedpath.com has personal identifiable information of a child under 16 in its database, please contact thebrandedpath.com at thebrandedpath@gmail.com and we will promptly remove such information from our records.
Additional Information
Please make a note that the information given on thebrandedpath.com is in no way intended as legal, accounting, tax, financial, nutritional or medical advice or any other professional advice. If you need those types of advice, please contact a professional adviser.
Contact Information
Any questions reguarding thebrandedpath.com privacy policy please email thebrandedpath@gmail.com