Privacy Policy

There are times when information about your visit to this blog may be kept:

Cookies:

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. This data is held by Squarespace, our web platform and by Google Analytics. 

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

This website is on the Squarespace platform, you can find full details of Squarespace's Data Processing here.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Some information on changing your cookie settings for Google Chrome can be found here. 

If you Subscribe to our email list:

If you click through and subscribe to our email list you provide your name and email address, this is automatically sent to our list held at Mail Chimp. It is only ever used to allow us to send you our weekly newsletter. Our newsletter will tell you about any new posts here at Sum of their Stories and possibly link to any relevant older posts of ours. Very occasionally we might include a link to another site if the content is especially interesting or relevant. You can read more about Mail Chimp's Privacy Policy here.

Advertising:

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site, these include Google Adsense, Ezoic, Awin, Mediavine and Amazon. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website and other websites.

  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

  • You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Or you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

  • Awin is an affiliate marketing company, some of the adverts found here on Sum of their Stories are brought to you via Awin. Their privacy policy can be found here.

  • Amazon Affiliate programme uses cookies as unique identifiers so they can identify for example, when you click through a link on this site, that you have arrived at Amazon via a link from Sum of their Stories. More details about Amazon's Privacy policy and their use of cookies can be found here.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies. The links to their Privacy policies can be found in the bullet points above. 

If you email us directly or using the CONTACT FORM:

If you choose to email me, either directly or via the CONTACT form at the top of this page, I will only keep your email until the matter you email about is concluded. Then your email is deleted. If we have ongoing business then I will keep your email address in my contacts.

Privacy Policy for my ETSY Shop

Full details of the privacy policy for my ETSY shop can be found on the shop in the policies section. 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.