At ihatehartford (accessible from https://ihatehartford.net), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This document informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that information.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or need more information about our Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is only applied to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website in relation with the information that they shared and/or collect in ihatehartford. This policy does not apply to any information which is collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By continuing to use our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
We believe in transparency. If we ask you for personal information, it will be clear at the time why we need that info.
In common, here’s how we gather info:
- Information you choose to disclose to us voluntarily: When interacting with us directly or indirectly, such as when you contact us directly (e.g. via contact form inquiring about our services), subscribe for a newsletter or leave a comment on a post we may receive information including your name, e-mail address and the contents of any message and/or attachments you send to us.
- Log Files: ihatehartford follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files track visitors when they browse sites. In an ideal world, this will help us see how the site is doing. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages and possibly the number of clicks. This is not associated with any information that is personally identifiable. We use the information for trend analysis, administration of the site, tracking users’ movement on an website and gathering demographic information.
- Cookies and Web Beacons: We use “cookies” to store information about visitors preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This enables us to offer you an optimized experience by personalizing our web page content based on your browser type or other information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information that we collect in different ways, mostly to operate and improve the blog. Specifically, we use it to:
- (p) Provide, operate and maintain our Sites.
- Improve, personalize and enhance our website content.
- Analyze and understand how you use our website (so we know what types of posts that you actually like);
- Create new products, services, features and functionality.
- Explore to you directly or via one of our partners, including for customer service, and to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- Email you (only if you’ve signed up for that).
- Find and prevent fraud.
Third-Party Privacy Policies & Advertising
As ihatehartford is a commercial blog, we may show ads from our third-party advertising partners like Google AdSense and employ analytics tools to gain insights into our audience. These parties may rest on data from your browser — through cookies and comparable technologies — to provide advertisements, based in part on previous visits to this and different websites. Such data can include your IP address, browser information and browsing activity. To learn more about what data Google uses for advertising, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms site.
- Advertising Partners: The third-party advertisement servers or ad networks cookies, JavaScript or Web Beacons for their respective advertisements and links that appear on ihatehartford (they are directly to your browser). This causes them to automatically receive your IP address. These technologies are used to assess the success of their ad campaigns and/or to customize the advertising content you now see on sites that you visit. ihatehartford has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
- Analytics: We might utilize tools resources like Google Analytics to identify patterns of traffic. This information is compiled and does not identify individual users specifically.
It may have separate Privacy Policies which is not covered in this service. It may contain their policies and guidelines on the choices you have to that affect them.
Disabling Cookies
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. For any questions about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Rights
Under the CCPA, California consumers have the right to, among other things:
- A business that collects a consumer’s personal data must disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data of consumers that it has collected.
- Asks a business to delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected.
- Opt out: Ask a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, to not sell the consumer’s personal data.
In case you make a request, we will have a month to respond to you. In order to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We want to ensure that you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Here’s what every user is entitled to:
- Right to access – You have the right to make requests of a copy of your personal data. We might charge you a nominal fee for this.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure — You have the right to ask