Privacy Policy

At Heart and Stove, accessible from www.heartandstove.com, we respect the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that may be collected and recorded by this website (www.heartandstove.com) and how we may use it.

This website will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

Consent

By visiting and using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of this website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use this website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

What Information We Collect

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website

When you access this website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to this website when browsing this website or signing up for newsletters or submitting a comment or submitting an inquiry via our contact form

The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

Automatically-Collected Information

This website follows a standard procedure of using log files to automatically collect certain information about you through Log Data. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies (see next section). The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can view Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

The information collected by log files and Google Analytics include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, and referring/exit pages. These logs are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

When you use this website, we may log your IP address, the device or operating system or browser you are using, referring website, pages you viewed, time spent on our site, and/or when you came to this website. We may also collect information on actions you take while visiting this website, such as any links or buttons you click on.

The purpose of the information is for analyzing website statistics related to user behavior and interests and gathering demographic information.

Cookies

The website may use cookies to facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing the website.

We may use cookies for various reasons such as optimizing and personalizing your browsing experience, checking our website analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, serving ads based on your liking and interests, affiliate marketing and for posting comments on our website. 

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website. 

When you leave a comment on this website, 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. 

If you have an account and you log in to this website, 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.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Fore more detailed information about cookie management, visit the website for your specific web browser.

If you choose to disable cookies, you may not be able to view all features and content of this website.

How the Information We Collect Is Used

Any of the information we collect from you may also be used in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience
• To improve this website to better serve you
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
• To send periodic emails
• To tailor advertisements to you
• To follow up with you through email or other method of correspondence

Comments and Social Media

When you leave a comment, your name, email address and website/organization name will be recorded as provided. You are welcome to use a nick-name if you don’t want your name published with the comment. This information is not shared with a third party. This information may be used to communicate with you.

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.

Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

Third Party Links and Advertisements

We may include, offer, or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by this Privacy Policy.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Heart and Stove. 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.

You may be able to opt out of the use of these technologies by visiting the privacy policy and ad settings respective to each third party advertising partner.

Heart and Stove has no access to or control over cookies used by third-party advertisers.

Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check these policies and have included links to help you do so.

• Google Adsense – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Affiliate Program Participation

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. As part of this program, Heart and Stove can post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their websites. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Heart and Stove may participate in other non-specified affiliate programs, which have the capability to track the referrals to their websites and utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

I will always disclose when and where affiliate links are being used. I only share products, brands, and/or services I use and believe in. Using affiliate programs helps make this site possible, so thank you for your support!

Sponsored Content

Heart and Stove may engage in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content will always be duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. 

Newsletters

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter. Your email address may be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it. For example, we use MailPoet to deliver our email newsletters. 

All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel embedded in emails allows an analysis of the success of our email marketing campaign. These tracking pixels allow us to see when you opened the email, if you opened the email, and what links you clicked in the email. This also allows this website to adapt future newsletter content to the interest of the user. This behavior is confidential and will not be passed onto third parties.

You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in all our emails. You may also email us at sharon@heartandstove.com to be removed from our mailing list at any time.

Disclosure of Your Information

As a general rule, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent with the exception of the following circumstances:

1. We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that work with us such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.
2. We may disclose your information in order to comply with state or federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to the website.

Rights to Your Information

Opt-out

If you wish to no longer receive communication from us, you have the option of unsubscribing by clicking “unsubscribe” in the bottom of the email we send to you or by submitting a request to sharon@heartandstove.com.

Access or Amend

You may access or update the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to sharon@heartandstove.com.

Erase

You may request that we erase your personal data by submitting a request to sharon@heartandstove.com.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights:

• the right to access your personal data
• the right to ensure the accuracy of your personal data
• the right to have us delete your personal data
• the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
• the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Children’s Information

Heart and Stove 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.

Online Privacy Policy Only

Our 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 Heart and Stove. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Contact

For any questions or comments regarding the privacy policy, please contact us at sharon@heartandstove.com.