What information we collect
The types of information that Make Something Mondays collects about you may include: Contact information such as name, street address, email address, and telephone or mobile number; Demographic information such as date of birth, gender, interests, state, country, and zip code; Location information such as your actual or approximate location; Usage, viewing, and technical data, including your device identifier or IP address. Make Something Mondays use “cookies” or other tracking devices which may collect, but is not limited to, the following information: demographic data, browser type, IP address, pages viewed, activity conducted on the page, and the timing of your visit. By visiting our site you consent to the collection of this information by Make Something Mondays and by permitted third parties. You may refuse or delete cookies on our Sites. Please refer to your browser Help instructions to learn more about cookies and other tracking devices and how to manage their use. If you choose to refuse or delete cookies, some of the functionality of our site may be impaired. If you use another computer or change browsers you will need to repeat the process of refusing or deleting cookies. For questions or to get information deleted, please contact Make Something Mondays.
How we use your information
We never sell your name or give it away. If you fill out our contact form asking for information, we won’t subscribe you to our general marketing email lists.
Comments
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.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 login 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.
Email newsletters
Make Something Mondays uses a list to maintain email newsletters to help communicate information about recent updates, upcoming events, general informational and marketing purposes. You can opt-out of these electronic communications at any time by following the instructions in our emails.
Advertising
We host advertising on our site.
We may also embed content from third party sites, such as YouTube, and that content may include ads. While we try to minimize the amount of ads our embedded content contains, we can’t always control what third parties show.
What software we use on our site
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic to our site and how people interact with our site. At various times, we may use other tools to measure the efficacy of our marketing endeavors. The Google Analytics terms specify that no personally identifiable information may be collected.
Google Analytics
Make Something Mondays site uses Google Analytics to collect information about your use of our website. Information is logged for 26 months. This consists of information your web browser automatically sends to Google, such as the web address of the page that you visit and your IP address. Google may also set cookies or read preexisting cookies. This information is stored on Google´s servers. Google uses this information to provide us with reports about traffic to our website and your visit to our website (such as the domain from which you access the internet, the web address of the website from which you linked to our site, the time and date of your visit to the web pages that you view and click through). We use this data to improve our website structure and content. Google may also use this data in accordance with their Privacy Policy, which can be found at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
For more detailed information on how Google uses your data through our website, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
You may opt-out of our use of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page and installing the Google Analytics browser add-on, currently made available by Google at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Social networks
On our site we may enable you to access online communities for sharing information such as messages, photos, and videos. You may only share this information with persons of legal drinking age. We may also enable you to post content from some of our Sites to your profile on other social networks. Please be aware that the privacy policy of the social networking site will apply to any content you post on or provide to that Site. In addition, when you post or share content or communications from our Site with any third party social network you also allow us to share information with that third party social network. We cannot control any policies or terms of such third party social networks. As a result, we cannot be responsible for any use of your information or content by a third party social network, which you use at your own risk. Facebook, Twitter Our Sites may allow you to connect and share information with Facebook and Twitter. Sharing such information with these platforms may require us to implement cookies and/or APIs in order to facilitate the communication between our Site and Facebook and Twitter. That information, shared through cookies and/or API’s, then becomes subject to Facebook’s and Twitter’s Data Policy, located at https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Information we share
We do not share your information with third-parties or other users without your permission. If you opt-in to sharing your email address for periodic updates or related information, your email will be registered with us. You can opt-out of these electronic communications at any time by following the instructions in our emails. If you ask Make Something Mondays questions, we will follow-up to offer support. The Make Something Mondays site may contain links to third-party websites not controlled by Make Something Mondays or covered by this Privacy Policy. If you submit information to any of those websites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
Opt out options
If you have already submitted information to Make Something Mondays and would like us to remove it from our records, please contact us and request removal of the information from our records. Once we receive your request, we will remove the information you provided to Make Something Mondays from our files.
You may choose to stop receiving updates or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in emails you receive from us.
For more information on how to opt out of our use of Google Analytics and our use of its Advertising Features please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and http://www.google.com/safetycenter/tools/#manage-your-ads-preferences.
Last Modified and effective Date: July 2019