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Personal Data Collection and Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser.

Personal Data Collected

Any personal data collected is done for the sole purpose of running this site and will never be sold or shared with others except as listed below or where required by law and/or when absolutely necessary to protect the rights and safety of the site’s users and others.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, the site collects 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 e-mail 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/. When your comment is posted, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on the site, you may opt-in to saving your name, e-mail 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.

Newsletter and Contests

When visitors sign up for Locksley’s Log or contests, the site collects the data shown in the sign-up/entry form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Your collected information will be used solely by Sarah Locksley to communicate with you in way of newsletters and special offers, as well as contest updates, and will be kept indefinitely unless you request to have it deleted. If you do not want to receive further communications, you may use the link provided at the bottom of each e-mail you receive. Otherwise, you may e-mail Sarah directly at sarah@sarahlocksley.com and request to be omitted from further communication.

This site uses the services of Mailchimp.com to manage subscriber lists which has its own privacy policy for data collection and use. That privacy policy is available here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Contest entries may be posted on sarahlocksley.com or shared on other social media sites. All information shown publically concerning the creator/entrant associated with each entry shall be limited to that which entrant gave express permission to be used on the entry form. If desired, a pseudonym can be provided in lieu of a legal name for posting purposes. At no time will an entrant’s e-mail address, physical address, or full name be shared publically. All entrants’ information collected in the course of a contest will be automatically deleted within 90days of the contest ending. You will be required to re-enter your information to participate in future contests. If you also sign-up for the newsletter, any information associated with that will be kept indefinitely unless you unsubscribe.

Site Operations

This site operates through the use of WordPress whose privacy and cookie policy is available here: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/

This site is hosted by HostGator whose privacy and cookie policy is available here: https://www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy

Use of Third-Party Connections

If you use a link on sarahlocksley.com to connect to an outside site such as Amazon or social networks, those sites will collect personal information and use cookies according to their own policies.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

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 into that website.

Change Your Cookie Settings

From your browser, you can check which cookies a website uses and can change your preferences.

Disclaimer: Sarah Locksley does her best to ensure all links are to reputable sites, however she cannot guarantee the safe practices of any third-party sites. It is advised that you perform a personal assessment of third-party sites before using any links.