Who we are

This blog, “rockinmama.net” (and affiliated sub-domains), is a personal blog written and edited by Caryn Bailey, and contributed to by other writers who are/will be identified in their specific posts or articles. For questions about this blog, please contact  caryn [at] rockinmama Dot net .

Our website address is: https://RockinMama.net

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Information we collect automatically

When you visit this website to browse, read, or download information:

• Your web browser automatically sends us (and we may retain) information such as the:
  • Internet domain through which you access the Internet
  • Internet Protocol address of the computer you are using
  • type of browser software and operating system you are using
  • date and time you access our site, and
  • the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to our site.
• We will use this information as aggregate data to help us maintain this site, e.g., to determine the number of visitors to different sections of our site, to ensure the site is working properly, and to help us make our site more accessible and useful.
• We will not use this information to identify individuals, except for site security or law enforcement purposes.
• We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information.

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 this 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.

Contact forms

If you choose to identify yourself (or otherwise provide us with personal information) when you use our online forms:

• We will collect (and may retain) any personally identifying information such as your name, street address, email address, and phone number, and any other information you provide. We will use this information to try to fulfill your request and to provide service to you. We will not disclose such information to third parties except as specified in this privacy policy or except as permitted by you.
• If you request information, services, or assistance then we may disclose your personal information to third parties that (in our judgment) are appropriate in order to fulfill your request. We will only do so as specified in this privacy policy and as explicitly consented by you. If, when you provide us with such information, you specify that you do not want us to disclose the information to third parties, we will honor your request. Note, however, that if you do not provide such information, it may be impossible for us to refer, respond to or fulfill your request.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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.

Analytics

We use services that collect information about use of this site. These anaytics services collect information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, what links they click in the site, and what site referred the user to this site. We use the information we get from analytics software only to improve this site. Analytics services collect only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of analytics services with personally identifiable information.

Although the analytics services plant a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but the service that set the cookie. The ability of analytics services to use and share information collected about your visits to this site is restricted by each services Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

You can prevent analytics software from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

You can prevent analytics software from tracking your visits to this site by enabling the Do Not Track feature of your web browser(s).

The following services are used to track visitor information:

• Google Analytics (privacy policy)
• wordpress.com (privacy policy)

Who we share your data with

This website serves ads provided by third party ad networks. These networks are:

• BlogHer/She Knows Media (privacy policy)
• Google AdSense (privacy policy)
• ShareASale (privacy policy)
• Chicory (privacy policy)
• Collective Bias/Social Fabric/Inmar Company (privacy policy)
• DiMe Media (privacy policy)
• Hopster (privacy policy)
• Amazon Affiliates (privacy policy)
• TeeSpring (privacy policy)
• Humarian Affiliate (privacy policy)
• TapInfluence (privacy policy)
• Teddy the Dog (privacy policy)
• Blog Paws Network (privacy policy)
• Influence Central (privacy policy)

These companies use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Some of these advertisers plant cookies in your web browser to assist the conduct of their services. We do not control the cookies placed by advertisers.

In addition to cookies, some advertises (e.g. BlogHer/She Knows Media, Vibrant Ads, Amazon Affiliates and Google AdSense) use web beacons or similar technologies to serve advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing this and other sites, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid showing duplicate advertisements.

These advertisers collect non-personal data such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, times of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. These advertisers control the data they collect.

The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising services is subject to their own privacy policies. This website publisher disclaims all liabilities in connection with 3rd party advertisers.

How long we retain your data

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or other data which enables you to access certain parts of a website, you are responsible for keeping this password and any other log-in details confidential and we recommend that you do not share your password or other log-in details with anyone. You will be responsible for all activity under your username/log-in details. We will keep your personal data for only so long as is necessary or as otherwise required by applicable law.

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the EEA. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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.

Additionally, as a data subject you may have rights in relation to your personal data which include:

• Right to rectification.You may request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.You may at any time withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data carried out by us on the basis of your previous consent. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on such previous consent.
• Right to make a subject access request (SAR).You may request in writing copies of your personal data. However, compliance with such requests is subject to certain limitations and exemptions and the rights of other individuals. Each request should make clear that a SAR is being made. You may also be required to submit proof of your identity and any payment permitted by law, where applicable.
• Right to object to processing including automated processing and profiling.We do not always make automated decisions about data subjects. However, we may rely on information provided by third parties such as credit reference agencies which may score data subjects on the basis of automated decisions. Profiling may be carried out for business administration purposes, such as monitoring trends in user visits of our website and in order to deliver relevant ads to users’ devices. We will comply with valid objection requests unless we have a compelling overriding legitimate ground for the continuation of our processing or we have another lawful reason to refuse such request. We will comply with each valid opt-out request in relation to marketing communications.
• Right to erasure.You may request that we erase your personal data. We will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so. For example, there may be an overriding legitimate ground for keeping the personal data, such as, our business record retention obligations that we have to comply with.
• You may request that we restrict our processing of your personal data in various circumstances. We will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so, such as, a legal obligation to continue processing your personal data in a certain way.
• Right to data portability.In certain circumstances, you may request we provide a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have it transferred to another provider of the same or similar services. To the extent it applies to us a controller we will comply with such transfer request. Please note that a transfer to another provider does not imply erasure of your personal data which may still be retained for legitimate and lawful purposes.
• Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.We suggest that you contact us about any questions or complaints in relation to how we process your personal data. However, each data subject has the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority directly.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

The administrators and owners of this website can be contacted through our website contact form.

Additional information

The legal basis for processing your Personal Data

In order to comply with applicable data protection laws, we are required to set out the legal basis for processing your Personal Data. In accordance with the purposes for which we collect and use your Personal Data, as set out above, the legal basis for processing your personal data will typically be one of the following:

• Our own or our third parties’ legitimate business interests (for example, in maintaining and promoting our business by providing customers with feedback opportunities or other instances where we have carried out a legitimate interests assessment and have established an existing legitimate interest);
• The performance of a contract that we have in place with you;
• Your consent where appropriate;
• To protect your vital interests; or
• Compliance with our legal obligations.

How we protect your data

This site is stored on a secure web server. All data that forms this site is stored on this web server and is protected by anti hacking devices.

Contact forms used within this site send copies of contact messages to the 3rd party email services used by this site’s owner and administrators. These 3rd party email services are protected by anti-hacking devices. These emails may be forwarded to additional storage units such as desktop computers and mobile devices. These computers and devices are protected at all times.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If a data breach should occur and should the accessed data be personal to visitors we will notify affected visitors within 72 hours of the discovery of any such data breach.

Rockin’ Mama is committed to protecting your privacy. This website uses cookies and other tracking tools, placed either by us or our third party partners and providers, to feature ads relevant to you. This might happen on our own websites or on websites run by separate companies. These tracking tools will collect information on what parts of our websites interest you – in other words, your behavior or browsing history. We also work with outside partners who help us gather this information. These partners help us both on our websites as well as outside websites. You can opt out of having us collect and share this information by clicking here. Please note that the choices you make are browser-specific. So, if you use a different browser, you will need to opt out again.

In posting a comment on this blog, the reader/commentor willingly gives Rockin’ Mama,  its contributors and owners, permission to contact them in regard to their comment or contest entry with the provided contact information. In order to protect the privacy of your email address, we highly encourage reader/commenter to refrain from including your email address in the body of a comment, as we cannot be responsible for cleaning up every comment. You may choose to opt out of any email correspondence that you receive by following the steps to unsubscribe or send an email stating your request. The owners and contributors reserve the right to remove any comment or portion there of that they deem inappropriate, unfair, or for any other reason felt necessary.