PRIVACY POLICY

1 June 2020

The Blonde Chronicle (“The Site”, “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you when you visit our website, how we use the information we collect, with whom we share it and how we protect it.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to store information about visitor preferences and to record user-specific information on visits and pages the user views in order to provide a custom experience. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

Advertising – we use cookies to help us display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and

Analysis – we use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services. 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/.

In regard to third-party advertisers, The Blonde Chronicle has no access or control over these cookies. Visitors to our website should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt out.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so and about other cookie-related management can be found on the specific web browsers’ websites.

Amazon Affiliates Cookie

Amazon Affiliates, a third party system, uses cookies to serve advertisements and links to products on Amazon.com.  You may read more about Amazon Affiliates and their Operating Agreement here.

Email Addresses

We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also on occasion to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the email. We will not share your email address with any third parties, unless via sale of our assets or equity, whether in part or in whole.

Registration or Account Data

We may collect other information from you when you register with our Site so that you are able to use various features on the Site. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).

We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services as well as public sources.

We may use third parties to provide the functionality to allow you to register for the Site, in which case the third party will also have access to your information. Otherwise, we will not provide any personally-identifying information about you to third parties, except if required by law or via sale of our assets or equity, whether in part or in whole.

Affiliates Disclaimer

The Site may contain links to affiliate websites. As such, we will receive an affiliate commission for any purchases made by you on the affiliate website using such links.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

The Blonde Chronicle may, on occasion, make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make a material change to our Privacy Policy, then we will provide notice to you (by posting on our website) that our privacy practices have changed. Similarly, if we make any material changes to how we handle your personal information, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of such new or different use. The most recent version of this Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the date this Privacy Policy was last revised appearing at the top of this page.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this Site, please email us at kim@theblondechronicle.com.

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DISCLOSURE POLICY

This disclosure policy guides www.theblondechronicle.com, a lifestyle-based blog, which is a personal blog written and edited by Kimberly Kay, owner of Ink Spot Publishing, DBA. For questions about this blog, please email kim@theblondechronicle.com.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other, various forms of compensation. This blog abides by word-of-mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received from marketers may influence the advertising content, topics or posts featured on this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner of this blog may be compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for some posts or advertisements, we will always give and share our honest opinions, findings, beliefs or experiences on those topics or products. 

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blogger’s 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 policy is valid from 1 June 2020.

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