Disclosure & Privacy Policy

Compensation received will never influence my opinions, although it may influence the content or topics presented on this site. Any sponsored content will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content. Sponsors are chosen carefully. Basically, that means they are sponsors only if I feel personally comfortable endorsing their products or services.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely mine and do not constitute medical, legal, financial or other advice. They do not represent the views, opinions or attitude of any featured sponsor, product or company. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. I make every effort to provide the most factual information available in my reviews. Readers are encouraged to perform their own research or investigation before purchasing a product or service reviewed, featured or advertised on this blog.

Amazon Affiliate

This site participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for websites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Some posts may contain affiliate links. If a purchase is made using one of the affiliate links on this website we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you!

Privacy Policy

At Stacy Lyn Harris, your privacy is very important to us. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Email addresses are collected and used for the sole purpose of keeping you up-to-date with news, tips, and special offers.

Stacy Lyn Harris operates several websites including stacylynharris.com. It is Stacy Lyn Harris’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Stacy Lyn Harris collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stacy Lyn Harris’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stacy Lyn Harris’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Stacy Lyn Harris may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Stacy Lyn Harris also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Stacy Lyn Harris only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites choose to interact with Stacy Lyn Harris in ways that require Stacy Lyn Harris to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Stacy Lyn Harris gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Stacy Lyn Harris updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Stacy Lyn Harris collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Stacy Lyn Harris. Stacy Lyn Harris does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Stacy Lyn Harris may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Stacy Lyn Harris may monitor the most popular pages on the stacylynharris.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Stacy Lyn Harris may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Stacy Lyn Harris does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Stacy Lyn Harris discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Stacy Lyn Harris’s behalf or to provide services available at Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Stacy Lyn Harris will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Stacy Lyn Harris discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Stacy Lyn Harris believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Stacy Lyn Harris, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Stacy Lyn Harris website and have supplied your email address, Stacy Lyn Harris may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Stacy Lyn Harris and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Stacy Lyn Harris takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Transactional Data

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our Site  (“Transactional Data“). The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions.  Payment processing on our Site is handled by our payment services provider, Stripe. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services provider’s privacy policies and practices here.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Stacy Lyn Harris uses cookies to help Stacy Lyn Harris identify and track visitors, their usage of Stacy Lyn Harris website, and their website access preferences. Stacy Lyn Harris visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. To view a more detailed list of cookies on Stacy Lyn Harris, please view the full cookie list.

Third parties such as and including Facebook may use storage technologies including cookies and web beacons to collect/receive information from our websites and other places on the internet in order to target ads and provide measurement services. You can opt-out of this by setting your browser to refuse cookies before using Stacy Lyn Harris’s websites. You can also exercise this choice at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

Business Transfers

If Stacy Lyn Harris, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Stacy Lyn Harris goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Stacy Lyn Harris may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Advertising

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Stacy Lyn Harris and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

CafeMedia

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Disqus anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Stacy Lyn Harris may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Stacy Lyn Harris’s sole discretion. Stacy Lyn Harris encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, please contact us.

Cookie List

Registered Users/Admin

Cookie Name Data Stored Expires? Description
wordpress_test_cookie The text ‘WP Cookie check’ A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies.
wordpress_xxxxx Your login authentication details in an encrypted form A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. WordPress uses these cookies to store your authentication details, and their use is limited to the admin console area.
wordpress_logged_in_xxxxx Your login details in an encrypted form A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. WordPress uses this cookie to indicate when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.
wp-settings-xxxxx,wp-settings-time-xxxxx Text indicating your preferred settings Persistent cookie, expire a little under one year from the time they’re set. WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
woocommerce_cart_hash   A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. These cookies are used by the online shop to allow it to function correctly.
woocommerce_items_in_cart   A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. These cookies are used by the online shop to allow it to function correctly.
wp_woocommerce_session_   A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored.