Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://readinginspiration.com
readinginspiration.com – referred to in this policy as “the Site” is an information resource for parents. We are committed to providing a great service for our readers without creating any additional concerns or worries for you about your data. That means we respect your right to privacy. We are committed to minimising the collection and storage of your data to what is necessary to run our legitimate website business. We will do all we can to deal with your data in ways we would hope our own personal data would be – safely, securely and with trust.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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: http://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Also, see the Cookies section below for details on cookie use when commenting.
Email sign ups
The Site uses MailChimp to manage email subscriptions. If you opt into join our email list the details you submit will be collected for the purpose of sending email updates to you. You will be asked to opt-in and give permission for this during the sign up process. Please see MailChimps privacy policy for further information.
Akismet plugin
The Site uses the Akismet anti-spam plugin to protect our website from spam. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on readinginspiration.com.
Here is some information from Akismet: “We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).”
Smush Plugin
The Site uses the Smush plugin. Smush is a plugin the Site uses to minimise image size to enable this site to load efficiently and improve your experience of reading our pages. Note: Smush does not interact with the end users (you the reader) on this website.
Here is some information from Smush: “Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimise them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.
Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s Privacy Policy can be found here.”
Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator of Reading Inspiration. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip. (You – the reader’s – information is not collected by Drip).
Media
If you upload images to the Site, 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.
Contacting us
If you correspond with the Site we may store the information you have supplied to answer your questions, complete correspondence with you and for record-keeping purposes.
Cookies
When you leave a comment
If you leave a comment on the Site, your name, email address and website are stored in cookies. This is 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. We will not use any of the information you have submitted through comments for marketing purposes.
When you click on affiliate links
Third-party cookies may be placed in your browser from affiliate companies who we work with when you follow links from the Site to theirs. Please see our Disclaimer policy for information on Affiliate (or compensated) links used on this site.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on the 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
The Site uses third-party services from Google Analytics which may use cookies to help collect data about traffic to this website.
Display Ads
The Site use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit this website. These include personalised and non-personalised advertisements. They may use cookies and collect data. We use Google Adsense to serve advertising. Please see Google’s information on data privacy here. You can also find out more about how Google uses data to serve advertising here.
For further information on cookie usage and preferences please see our cookie policy.
Who we may share your data with
The Site is hosted by SiteGround. The Site also uses DropBox to backup website data. We use both SiteGround’s website security and Wordfence’s WordPress plugin to protect Reading Inspiration’s site and data.
Please also see the information above “Akismet plugin” and “Smush plugin” on the data stored by Akismet and Smush.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained by the Site indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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 the Site. 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. If you would like to make a request regarding your data contact us by emailing readinginspirationblog@gmail.com
Personal information
You should never submit sensitive personal information to the Site. This includes your social security or National Insurance number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s information
The Site does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes the Site has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16, please contact us immediately at readinginspirationblog@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove any such information from our records.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The Site uses Akismet anti-spam plugin to do this. Please see the section on “Akismet plugin” above for further details.
Also, see the information above about “Smush plugin” on how they store and serve data.
Any information collected by readingingspiration.com will be stored securely and may be transferred internationally outside the European Union through our websites hosts servers and backup servers. Our website host is Siteground. We also use DropBox to backup website data.
Contact information
You can contact us by emailing readinginspirationblog@gmail.com
Additional information
How we protect your data
The Site uses both SiteGround’s own website security and Wordfence’s WordPress plugin to protect readinginspiration.com’s site and any data collected.
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy!
Updates
This privacy policy was created on May 21 2018, and last updated on September 22 2023.
It was last reviewed on September 22 2023.
It will be reviewed annually or whenever updates are needed.
The next annual review is due on or before September 22 2024