Privacy Policy & Disclosure

The Running Mama’s Privacy Policy:

While being a parent might mean that you may never use the toilet alone again, it doesn’t mean that ALL of your privacy is gone! Welcome to the Running Mama’s Privacy and Disclosure Section. Here we breakdown our privacy policies for you because, let’s face it, we know how valuable your privacy is~ (cue:toilet flush).

Here’s the low down on the serious “stuff”:

The Running Mama is absolutely governed by the following Privacy Policy for you, our awesome readers. We’re committed to maintaining, respecting and protecting your privacy at all times. This page was created to inform you about what information we may collect and how it might be used.

Who We Are:

We are an awesome go to for helping with this balancing act called life! We are focused on parenting and living well! Here’s some other information you may find helpful:

  • My name is Courtney Stich! I’m a mama, a juggler, a runner-(hopeful),and the owner of this amazing space!
  • Our website address is : https://therunningmama.com.
  • If you have any questions you can always email me at:  therunningmama5@gmail.com

The Running Mama is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies or businesses for marketing purposes. But just in case you don’t believe us, we’ve provided lots of detailed information on this Privacy Policy Page to run through how we use your information, when, why, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure! Grab a cuppa coffee or whatever your pleasure…and read on!

Just as a “heads up”: these statements on this Privacy and Disclosure Page only apply to therunningmama.com.

 What Data/Information Do We Collect & How Is It Used?

 

  • Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
  • Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
  • Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
  • Comments:

    Not feeling the LOVE? No worries… we LOVE your comments on our site!  Here’s some other information about those 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.

How Your Information May Be Used:

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information:

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the therunningmama.com.  Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their own, respective privacy policies. This website, therunningmama.com currently uses the following third-party service providers:

  • Google Analytics –We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collects and stores certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy . Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
  • Google Drive – this service is used to administer reader surveys or collect information from potential advertisers. Google Drive may capture your name and email address.
  • ConvertKit– this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
  • WordPress – this service is used to publish our blog. 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.
  • Twitter Tweet Button: We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share Official Buttons: We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our web pages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our web page), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

  • Pinterest Share Button: We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpage.  These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

This list may be amended from time to time at therunningmama.com’s  sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data:

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly Visible Information:

If you create a user profile on our website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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:

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by our website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

The Running Mama Website  uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Information on Compensation and Opinionated Content:

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me and, therefore, will contain ever-changing content. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationships, opinion and identity. This blog contains our opinions and doesn’t reflect the opinions of any organizations we’re affiliated with. The owner of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, events, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products.

Other Additionally Awesome Information About Our Blog:

 

Hold Harmless Clause:

The information presented in this blog is for informational and/or entertainment purposes only. This shouldn’t be seen as replacement for any kind of medical, legal, tax, emotional or other types of advice. Reading and utilizing information on this blog is solely at the reader’s own risk.

  • I am a certified educator HOWEVER, (regardless of researched content that may be present), the blog posts presented are for informational purposes only and shouldn’t be seen as financial, health, nutritional, medical, legal, etc advice. Please consult with a professional before taking any sort of action.
  • I’m not a doctor, medical professional, health professional, or business professional! The information posted is not to be taken as professional advice.

Terms of Use: Any information we provide on our blog is accurate and true to the best of our knowledge.There may be omissions, errors or mistakes…hey, we’re only HUMAN!

Reviews:When reviews on products are completed, they are done so on my own accord and on products that I personally own. Sponsored reviews are on products, services or events in which I have received complimentary for review. That content or advertising space will be clearly identified as a paid or sponsored post. Once again, the views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Affiliate Links:Affiliate links are used throughout our site. By purchasing a product through an affiliate link, your costs will be the same, but The Running Mama will receive a small commission. This helps to cover some of the costs for the site

Reservation of rights : As the sole owner of therunningmama.com, I reserve the right to change how I manage or run the blog and the I may change focus or content on therunningmama.com at any time.

Still have more questions regarding our Privacy Policy & Disclosures? No sweat! Please feel free to contact me at: 

therunningmama5@gmail.com!

Warmly,

Courtney Stich