Privacy Policy
Effective as of July 1st, 2023
Privacy Policy for www.whatsmaddyupto.com
At What’s Maddy Up To, accessible from https://www.whatsmaddyupto.com, our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by What’s Maddy Up To and how we use it. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in What’s Maddy Up To. This Policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of Word Press.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
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
Like any other website, What’s Maddy Up To uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. 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 login 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 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.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. When you sign up for our email list, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, email address.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
What’s Maddy Up To follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files via Google Analytics includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Our Advertising Partners
- Google https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
- Amazon Associates Click here for Amazon.com Privacy Notice
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of What’s Maddy Up To. Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on What’s Maddy Up To, which is sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that What’s Maddy Up To has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
What’s Maddy Up To Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following: The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service. 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 request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete. The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to object to processing – You have the right to object our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children Information
Part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. What’s Maddy Up To does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Terms & Conditions
Effective as of July 1st, 2023
Terms of Use
www.whatsmaddyupto.com or What’s Maddy Up To is considered an informational and educational purpose-only blog. This information on www.whatsmaddyupto.com is not based on any professional, financial, or legal advise. Each article is based on personal experience.
Professional information will only be provided if we have a professional-client relationship that has been agreed upon in writing and/or documentation with both parties’ signatures on it. Using any information from www.whatsmaddyupto.com is at your own risk.
Please always consult a professional for better understanding/help before making any professional decisions.
Copyright Policy
Unless otherwise noted I (Maddy Dexter From What’s Maddy Up To) am the legal copyholder of all (written, media, and graphic) material on this blog, unless otherwise stated within the blog post and/or on graphic materials. Any information from www.whatsmaddyupto may not be used, reprinted, modified, or published without the owner’s consent.
Please attach a link to www.whatsmaddyupto.com to any materials you are using from this blog.
The opinions of third parties are their own opinions and do not represent www.whatsmaddyupto.com
Privacy Statement
This site is intended for individuals over the age of 17. Any children under the age of 13 are prohibited from this website. I do not collect, use, or disclose any information from children without parental permission. If any information was collected from an individual who is under the age of 13, please contact us so I can delete that information immediately.
Any personal/contact information given will NOT be sold or disclosed to other parties. Your privacy will be kept safe on www.whatsmaddyupto.com. Your email will not be used for any spamming list whatsoever.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices of any advertisers or people that comment on my blog post.
Reserve Rights
I (Maddy Dexter) reserve the right to change the focus of the website. This includes; shutting the website down, selling the website, and changing the terms of use at my discretion.
Disclosure Policy for Sponsors/Affiliates/Advertisers
My blog What’s Maddy Up To is PR friendly. Each article was written for a brand, or sponsored, or affiliate links will be disclosed at the beginning of the post to notify readers.
I (Maddy Dexter) is not responsible for the actions of advertisers and/or sponsors. You must take action with the company for any products you purchase through any links and products I have mentioned in my articles.
Copyright Policy
Unless otherwise noted I (Maddy Dexter From What’s Maddy Up To) am the legal copyholder of all (written, media, and graphic) material on this blog, unless otherwise stated within the blog post and/or on graphic materials. Any information from www.whatsmaddyupto may not be used, reprinted, modified, or published without the owner’s consent.
Please attach a link to www.whatsmaddyupto.com to any materials you are using from this blog.
The opinions of third parties are their own opinions and do not represent www.whatsmaddyupto.com
Privacy Statement
This site is intended for individuals over the age of 17. Any children under the age of 13 are prohibited from this website. I do not collect, use, or disclose any information from children without parental permission. If any information was collected from an individual who is under the age of 13, please contact us so I can delete that information immediately.
Any personal/contact information given will NOT be sold or disclosed to other parties. Your privacy will be kept safe on www.whatsmaddyupto.com. Your email will not be used for any spamming list whatsoever.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices of any advertisers or people that comment on my blog post.
Reserve Rights
I (Maddy Dexter) reserve the right to change the focus of the website. This includes; shutting the website down, selling the website, and changing the terms of use at my discretion.
Disclosure Policy for Sponsors/Affiliates/Advertisers
My blog What’s Maddy Up To is PR friendly. Each article was written for a brand, or sponsored, or affiliate links will be disclosed at the beginning of the post to notify readers.
I (Maddy Dexter) is not responsible for the actions of advertisers and/or sponsors. You must take action with the company for any products you purchase through any links and products I have mentioned in my articles.
Copyright Policy
Unless otherwise noted I (Maddy Dexter From What’s Maddy Up To) am the legal copyholder of all (written, media, and graphic) material on this blog, unless otherwise stated within the blog post and/or on graphic materials. Any information from www.whatsmaddyupto may not be used, reprinted, modified, or published without the owner’s consent.
Please attach a link to www.whatsmaddyupto.com to any materials you are using from this blog.
The opinions of third parties are their own opinions and do not represent www.whatsmaddyupto.com
Privacy Statement
This site is intended for individuals over the age of 17. Any children under the age of 13 are prohibited from this website. I do not collect, use, or disclose any information from children without parental permission. If any information was collected from an individual who is under the age of 13, please contact us so I can delete that information immediately.
Any personal/contact information given will NOT be sold or disclosed to other parties. Your privacy will be kept safe on www.whatsmaddyupto.com. Your email will not be used for any spamming list whatsoever.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices of any advertisers or people that comment on my blog post.
Reserve Rights
I (Maddy Dexter) reserve the right to change the focus of the website. This includes; shutting the website down, selling the website, and changing the terms of use at my discretion.
Disclosure Policy for Sponsors/Affiliates/Advertisers
My blog What’s Maddy Up To is PR friendly. Each article was written for a brand, or sponsored, or affiliate links will be disclosed at the beginning of the post to notify readers.
I (Maddy Dexter) is not responsible for the actions of advertisers and/or sponsors. You must take action with the company for any products you purchase through any links and products I have mentioned in my articles.
Down below are types of ways I (Maddy Dexter) will disclose on my blog posts:
Advertisement:
Advertisements will be shown throughout my website and on blog posts. I (Maddy Dexter) receive only a small commission from showing advertisements on my website.
Sponsored/Collaborated Post:
I will be receiving or purchasing any product from brands who have contracted me to collaborate/sponsor. I will disclose at the start of a blog post if the post will contain any sponsored products by stating the following words:
“THIS POST IS SPONSORED BY *NAME OF BRAND*”
I will share the product with my 100% honest opinion and geared towards my niche on this blog. I will never influence my readers to purchase a product I am dissatisfied with. All products on my blog that are sponsored I have tried before publishing.
Affiliate Links:
Any blog post that is discussing an item, may include an affiliate link. At the start of the blog post you will see the following words:
“THIS POST INCLUDES AFFILIATE LINKS”
If you click on those affiliate links, I will receive either a profit/small percentage of the sale or purchase you make with that company.
The Following affiliate companies I am a part of are:
- Amazon Associates (The United States)
Relationship with Brand
There will be times where I am in a working relationship with a brand although the post is not being sponsored. At the start of the blog post, you will be seeing the following words:
“COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH *BRAND*”
I will be receiving a small commission and/or percentage of the sale.
Letters to the Editor
Any letters, emails, comments, or responses on any social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest.) that mentions and/or are written directly to me (Maddy Dexter) or www.whatsmaddyupto.com can be used to share on this website for the blogging audience unless specifically requested otherwise.
Privacy and identity of the person will be kept in place unless requested otherwise. For example, the name of the person and username will be covered or cut out.
Parts of the letter/email/response on social may be used in a newsletter, reviews, blog posts, and columns.
Thank you for taking the time to read What’s Maddy up To Disclosure page. If you have any questions, concerns, or would like more information please do not hesitate to contact us.
Maddy