Thank you so much for visiting laurendow.com (hosted as of 2022 by InMotion). This website is committed to protecting the privacy of our users as you travel over the site. This Privacy Statement is here to describe and explain to you how Laurendow.com collects information, how it later use that information, and outline the controls and choices you have around when and how you choose to share your personal data. If you have any questions or concerns in connection with the information collection practice summarized in this Privacy Statement, please send an email, with the subject heading
Who we are
Our website address is: https://laurendow.com.
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
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.
WordPress.com has provided a full Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
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.
Privacy Statement Questions to hello@laurendow.com.
Facebook Pixels
Laurendow.com uses tools such as Pixels, EventData, Custom Audiences, and other such mechanisms from Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are located in the European Union, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”) on our website.
This allows us to track and understand user behavior after someone has visited Laurendow.com while utilizing Facebook. What this does is to help us effectively manage the use of our Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. All data we collect as an organization remains completely anonymous. We do not ever see the personal data of each individual visitor or user. In order for proper transparency, we want to inform our website visitors that Facebook stores and process the data that has been collected, based upon our knowledge of the situation.
Facebook may link and use this information provided to your personal Facebook account and also use it for their company’s own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy which can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook’s social media platform. This can be managed through your personal account under ‘Settings.’ Facebook may also use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads
In order to ensure the security of our website visitors, you as the visitor have the option to provide or decline consent upon initial visit to our website. A pop-up will display itself at the bottom of the page which provides the visitor with the option to allow or decline the collection and use of this information.
By clicking ‘Allow,’ you are are agreeing to allow the use of such information to be used by Laurendow.com to collect this information about your use of the services and enable us to improve how these services work for our organization.
The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by visiting https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads through your own personal Facebook account.
Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and therefore guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).
See Facebook’s Cookie Policy for details about the cookies used and the data received. The Facebook pixel receives these types of data:
- Http Headers – Anything present in HTTP headers. HTTP Headers are a standard web protocol sent between any browser request and any server on the internet. HTTP Headers include IP addresses, information about the web browser, page location, document, referrer and person using the website.
- Pixel-specific Data – Includes Pixel ID and the Facebook Cookie.
- Button Click Data – Includes any buttons clicked by site visitors, the labels of those buttons and any pages visited as a result of the button clicks.
- Optional Values – Developers and marketers can optionally choose to send additional information about the visit through conversion tracking. Example custom data events are conversion value, page type, and more.
- Form Field Names – Includes website field names like ‘email’, ‘address’, ‘quantity’ for when you purchase a product or service. We don’t capture field values unless you include them as part of Advanced Matching, or conversion tracking.